The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-10-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

had stroke Of general paralysis.
A Cairo dispatch says that hundrt
| lives have lately been lost by the rising
the Nile.
The president has appointed Hem
Bohl of Marietta, Ohio, to be receiver
public moneys at Buffalo. Wyoming.
A Paris paper publishes report til,
the remains of Napoleon have been stole
from the tomb in the hotel Des Invalids
By the wreck OF Chinese transport O
one of the Pescadore islands, three hume
red soldiers and the captain and ere,
were drowned. Only one man escaped.
Oscar Neebe, the Chicago anarchist, be
gan working out his sentence of fifteel
years in the Joliet penitentiary Tuesday
He has been ASST gned to the harness shop
r. L. C. White of Lebanon, Tenn, ha
been appointed Supreme Keeper of Rec
ords and Seals of the knights of Pythlas
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the de
cease of Hon. r. E Cowan of St. Louis.
A sheriff's posse came in contact will
John Graham and Chas. Blevins, two no
torlous outlaws in Pleasant Valley, Ari
zona, last Thursday. The outlaws refused
to surrender and both we're shot and killed
The president has appointed Whitaker
NJ. Grant, of Iowa, to be attorney of the
United States for the district of Alaska,
and Charles NJ. Force, Of Kentucky, to be
receiver of public moneys at Lewiston,
Idaho.
A mammoth salt company, composed Of
all the large salt manufacturers of the
United States, is about to be formed for
mutual protection and to keep up prices.
1t will be known as the National Salt
Union.
The decision in the Jacob Sharp case
has been affirmed by the general term,
all four judges concurring. The case
can now be appealed to the court of ap-
peals, but Sharp will be sent to Sing Sing
Immediately.
A wreck occurred on the Mobile &
Ohio railroad Tuesday, near Jackson,
Tenn, by which an entire passenger train
was hurled from a trestle and over
thirty persons were injured, several of
hem fatally.
A terrible storm at Brownsville, Texas,
ast week caused the loss of countless
lumbers of sheep and cattle, and pros
rated the crops of cotton, corn and sugar
:ane. Several hundred buildings were
lnroofed or blown down by the terrific
Wind.
A terrible prize fight was fought near
Hankakee, ILL.,, early last Monday morn
ng between Billy Watson of Chicago and
Tom Duffy of Ohio in the presence of 800
persons. 1t lasted forty-four rounds and
vas declared draw after both were near
y pounded to jelly.
The wives of the condemned anarchists
re making statements to the effect that If
heir husbands are hanged they will kill
heir children and then commit suicide.
Nina VanZandt declares that if her hus-
and, August Spies, goes to the scaffold
he will die by her own hand at the same
our.
The trial under the coercion act of Will |
am O'Brien, the Irish editor and agitator,
or having used seditlous language in pub
C addresses, was concluded at Mitchells-
'wn, Ireland, last Saturday. He was
,und guilty on two charges and sentenc-
l to six months Imprisonment. He ap-
ealed from both judgments and was lib
'ated on bail.
The president has granted pardons in
e cases of VIM. Brooks, James Fitzger-
d, Thos. Jackson, VIM. Henderson, John
almer, Reuben Goines and George Hor-
", who were convicted in the United
atcs court In the district of Arkansas
st August of manslaughter, and whose
ntence was suspended. The pardon is
anted upon the ground that the convicts
ID reason to apprehend bodily harm from
e men whom they killed.
At a session of the Union Prisoners as
citation held at Chicago last week a res
ution was adopted recommending that a
II be drafted to be submitted to con-
ess, calling for pension for all Union
isoners of the late war. Those who
ere in prison three months to receive
e-fourth pension; six months, half pen
IN; nine months, three-quarter pension,
c., and an allowance Of 81 per day for
e time spent in prison. Another resolu-
IN was adopted declaring. the president
ould comply with the law by displaying
e captured rebel flags in some public
ace.
Laramie Boomerang: A new disease,
lied "Poke Easy" has broken out
nong the horses in the Snake River
untry, which is inevitably fatal inside of
enty- -four hours. The animal when